Biography

He studied both guitar and cello in Darmstadt and Cologne. His concert career began in 1978. He has made several radio, television and commercial recordings, both solo and with other musicians including the pianist

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

 Alexis Weissenberg

Alexis Weissenberg

-Early life and career:Born into a Jewish family in Sofia, Weissenberg began taking piano lessons at the age of three from Pancho Vladigerov. He gave his first public performance at the age of eight. After escaping to what was then Palestine in 1945, where he studied under Leo Kestenberg, he went...

, tenor Christoph Prégardien, cellist Peter Wolf and the Rubio String Quartet. He also publishes music, including modern works written specially for him (Karl-Wieland Kurz's I giardini del sogno, for example) and arrangements of music from the Baroque period. He has taught in Mainz and Darmstadt for over 15 years.

Books

• Bach's luteworks from the guitaris's view (Prim-Musikverlag)
  • Vol.1: Suites BWV 995/996 (english, german)

Interviews

• http://www.lacg.net/artistpage_hoppstock.htm Tilman Hoppstock - 2006 Interview with lacg (Los Angeles Classical Guitar) about Villa-Lobos
  Heitor Villa-Lobos
  Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...
  
  study n.7, Bach's Gavotta en Rondeau BWV 1006a and Sarabande BWV 825, etc.